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This really is the ultimate Fergie story - well-intentioned, wildly expensive and entirely chaotic.

When you read - undoubtedly with your mouth agape and in a state of bewilderment - that Sarah Ferguson once plotted to clone Queen Elizabeth II's corgis for her own financial gain, you must have thought you'd woken up in a parallel universe. No one would blame you. I was exactly the same.

Quite frankly, a logic-defying story like that does feel like the type of plot line desperate screenwriters would scrawl into the 22nd series of a long, drawn-out TV show - one that today only teeters on the edge of public interest.

Her aides may have since resurfaced to dismiss the story, but the fact is, everyone believed it because, at this point, after so many lies and after she has spent so long distorting the facts, who knows what to believe?

Sarah's got a famously long history of making interesting business decisions and only began to strike her collection of companies from the record when the Epstein scandal began to signal there really was no way back.

After allegedly attending several meetings in LA about "pushing to get back into TV" to "make some money" (surprise surprise), a source told the Daily Mail that "She came up with the idea of featuring the Queen's corgis in a show. And that included the idea of breeding them. Bizarre as it sounds, the idea of cloning them was discussed."

While the astonishing ins and outs would have, of course, been left to the back room boys, the image of Sarah, dressed in a white lab coat with a test tube in one hand and a petri dish in the other, like some mad scientist, with her vibrant red hair standing fantastically on end, is just too funny to picture.

The story itself is devoted and dystopian in equal measure. It stems from her turgid refusal to let the Elizabethan era sit... and stay (pun very much intended).

Her mother-in-law provided her with a blanket of protection, which is lacking these days. She's been thrown to the dogs, and the very little she can do about it. The idea that she could monetise Queen Elizabeth II's legacy by standing as some sort of gatekeeper to it is not only laughable but also a sinister and tasteless way to memorialise someone who gave her so much.

We all know cash-strapped Fergie has done many things for money, she has used her all title for her own gain more times than anyone can count - more times than (dare one say it) Meghan Markle has - but the view was as long as she was waxing lyrical about her royal memories or gushing effusivley about how special the late Queen was, then we didn't really mind, did we?

After all, we were all watching with equal parts amusement and disbelief at just how many scandals had washed off her as she resurrected herself once again for another crack in the spotlight.

But with her downfall guaranteed and the likelihood of a comeback looking less and less assured with every damning scandal that emerges, perhaps there are really some things that can only leave you in the doghouse.